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| In the Loving Memory of Calvin Coolidge Jerkins |
| Not only was he a husband, father, brother and uncle, but he was a friend. He was caring, understanding and just one of a kind. Not only did he serve his family but he served his Country in World War II in the 42nd Rainbow Divison. Uncle Calvin accomplished that great task , but he also accomplished the one thing that everyone seeks to do and that is to have the love and respect from each and every family member and friend. Not one family member can say anything bad against Uncle Calvin. When he came and saw one of us he went and seen all of us. He never met a stranger...He would come up to us and say "I know you" and before too long he did, even if you were a stranger. Some of us could say that he was the "Frame" that held us together as a family. We each could tell some kind of story that happened with our Uncle Calvin. It might be a story that he told us about when he served in the war or it could be the story of how he got lost and was at the corner of walk and don't walk. It seemed like he had a story for everything. He touched our lives in a special way...no matter if it was the time he told us jokes or the times he helped us when we cried. He was there to explain the death of a Grandfather and his brother to one of us or the time he was there when one of us went into the hospital down there in Pensacola. We all envied him, we all wanted to be like him. He had the perfect marriage of 52 yrs to Aunt Sarah Nell his one true love. The one person who knew him best. And with that love they had two sons that they both adored, Johnny and Gary. They are each devoted to their parents. To the mother who taught them to be kind and caring and to the father who taught them to be the men they have become. Uncle Calvin didn't have favorites between the family. When one of needed him he was the first one to us and the last one to leave us. He stepped in as a father, grandfather, brother and sometimes a mother. He was the fifth child of Thomas and Lizzie Jerkins, the baby brother to Comer, Ferrel, Tom and Bernell and the older brother to Bruce, O'Neil and Sarah Jean. Whether we remember him being the jokester or the man on the roof of the house or even the old man in the coffee shop that comes in two or three times a day laughing and carrying on with everyone, he will always remain the one person that we each could count on to be there. He could build things with his hands but he built a family with his heart. As my mom once said "If there is one person in this world who has jewels in his crown, Uncle Calvin was that person" Calvin Coolidge Jerkins went over that rainbow April 11, 2001. We Will Truely Miss You Uncle Calvin!!!!!!! |
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